The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

My body and my will are one.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.